The back-up dancers wore short shorts. The hard thrum of fusion calypso coaxed the crowd to heave as one sweaty mass, as testosterone radiated from the stage. The scene was, in a word, sexy. Edwin ...

American singer and composer Irving Burgie, who co-wrote Harry Belafonte's song "Day-O" (the Banana Boat Song) and swung calypso into the mainstream, has died aged 95. Burgie's death on Friday was ...